The Fiery Nightmare
She sprinted through the streets.
It was wrong to call them 'empty', for the city was full. Blood ran like rivers through the streets, and the bodies of the fallen piled carelessly where they had crumpled or been tossed.
This was the Ruin of Aurania.
The King of Sidera himself had personally seen to the destruction and burning of the city.
He walked alongside the army, and personally killed any living being he spotted along the way.
According to the book - the ones who described it - he had no expression on his face the entire time.
He dispassionately destroyed the city in a way that left a scar on the world and horrified the very soldiers who followed his orders.
Everyone who saw him on that day was never able to look at him again without seeing it. The madness in his eyes and the ruthlessness in his every movement and step. The cold, shocking efficiency.